Summary: <p><audio> </audio> </p><p>Looking healthy is vital to an attractive appearance. But how do we judge a person's healthiness? We find out how face shape and colour influence our perceptions of health, and revisit the idea of limbal rings: a part of the eye that gives away our health and age.</p><p><a href="http://archive.org/download/pap-2017-11-19/pap-2017-11-19.mp3">Download the MP3</a> </p><p><b>Support me!</b><br> <a href="http://www.patreon.com/psychology">Support the podcast on Patreon</a> for as little as $1 and get access to the patron-only feed, including bonus podcasts and blogs not available elsewhere.</p><p><b>Rate me!</b><br> Rate, review, or listen <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">in iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a> </p><p><b>Read the transcript!</b><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/the-eyes-have-it-limbal-rings-and-attraction-4b7cff46163f">The Eyes Have It: Limbal Rings and Attraction</a><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/what-makes-a-healthy-face-a88a7433f79">What Makes a Healthy Face?</a></p><p><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7OVeRO5_sQA/WhHsCaryf4I/AAAAAAAACQI/8nUvsboK8eITWci6tOUEGenvhpLHbQY4QCLcBGAs/s1600/bearded_man_en_face%2B%25280-00-00-00%2529.jpg"></p><p><i>The eye is the window to your... health? The eye on the left has an exaggerated limbal ring. Modified from <a href="https://freestocks.org/photo/bearded-man-en-face/">Joanna Malinowska/freestocks.org</a></i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b> </p><p>Brown, M., & Sacco, D. F. (in press). Put a (limbal) ring on it: Women perceive men's limbal rings as a health cue in short-term mating domains. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167217733072">Read summary</a></p><p>Jones, A. L. (in press). The influence of shape and colour cue classes on facial health perception. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.09.005">Read summary</a></p>
